This report determined the results of the implementation of flexible instructional organization (F10) or staff differentiation at Venice Junior High School, Sarasota, Florida. The introductory portion concerns the report purpose, procedures and scope as well as background material. Results of interviews, conferences, surveys, observations, and…

The use and acceptance by Navy personnel of sixteen major training devices were studied in relation to: situational factors affecting training; simulation characteristics of the trainer; instructional characteristics of the trainers; reliability of the trainers; formal and informal communications regarding trainer capabilities, and level of…

The Institute involved thirty-one participants (twenty-one working librarians and ten students) in a two-semester program, beginning in August, 1971 and ending in May, 1972. The program consisted of a four-day pre-session of cross-cultural training, thirty full-day sessions of lecture and discussion, and a two-day post-session of cross-cultural…

A teacher preparation evaluation model was developed at Western Kentucky University. A total of 18 secondary and 20 elementary student teachers participated in the study. Instrumentation and records used for data collection consisted of five general types: a questionnaire, a personality scale, rating scales, direct classroom observational systems,…

The definition, structures, utilities, stimulus-response differences, and portrayals of responsive evaluation are presented. An educational evaluation is said to be a "responsive evaluation" if it orients more directly to program activities than to program intents, if it responds to audience requirements for information, and if the different…

Study abroad programs have become more and more widespread over the past several years, and presently 25,000 students are involved in some kind of foreign study program for which academic credit may be earned. Critics of foreign study programs feel that the movement for international and intercultural education has expanded too quickly and without…

This evaluation form provides the teachers of Roslyn High School with the means by which to subjectively evaluate the school's tracking system. The six sections of the form, each of which provide for five possible responses, are concerned with the teacher's satisfaction with homogeneous grouping, how the teacher compares the advantages and…

A study conducted of Title I evaluation practices in urban districts which comprised the membership of the Council of the Great City Schools and to identify special problems related to Title I evaluation, as well as make recommendations for improving evaluation practices, is presented. The report contains the following sections: I. Evaluation of…

Positive and negative aspects of evaluating change programs are discussed, and a process evaluation model is proposed. The four specific areas upon which the paper focuses are as follows: (1) definitions of evaluation and evaluation research and a review of some approaches to evaluation; (2) the functional consequences of evaluation; (3) arguments…

Volume III with its appendixes analyzes critically many different facets of officer education and training. It starts from the factual base of the current Army Schooling system established in Annex B of AD-743 252 and takes cognizance of schooling programs in other public and private sectors. It attempts to take the long view of officer education…

"Sesame Street" has proved to be a successful attempt to use the best of contemporary television entertainment techniques to produce a daily hour-long educational television directed to the preschool population. The success is the result of the leadership of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) approach to producing the show. Some of…

A search of the ERIC system, Dissertation Abstracts, and the journal literature has yielded 28 documents, which are abstracted here. They review methods of program evaluation, and the extent to which programs and counselors themselves are effective in contributing to favorable student development. (CJ)

This monograph presents a general view of the results of implementation of performance-based teacher education programs (PBTE). Part I includes an overview of PBTE and a brief description of PBTE-oriented institutions selected by the PBTE committee. The overview concerns introductory information, the basic approach to implementation and an…

BY IDENTIFYING AND STUDYING SECONDARY ENGLISH PROGRAMS WHICH WERE REPORTED TO BE OUTSTANDING, THE INVESTIGATORS SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS OF SUPERIOR PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT BE EMULATED IN OTHER SCHOOLS. TO GUIDE STAFF MEMBERS IN PLANNING, 12 HYPOTHESES WERE FORMULATED. THE METHOD USED WAS A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL ENGLISH…

THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN PRIVATE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WERE REPORTED. MEMBER COLLEGES OF THE GREAT LAKES COLLEGES ASSOCIATION (GLCA) PARTICIPATED IN THE (1) IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS WHERE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION MIGHT BE APPLIED, (2) REVIEW OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS, (3) DEVELOPMENT OF NEW…